Improvement in fruning-shears



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v Letters-15atcnt`llrm 163,327, dated life?) 24, 1870.

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`'The Schedule :eren-ed to these Lettersv Pnient and making of thsanne.,

-I, AARON LyHATEIELD, ot' the village of Clyde, in the countyof Sanduskyand State of Ohio, have i'nvented certain Improvements in Pruninghearsof `which the following is specification.

Figurel is a'linli. 4 Figure 2 isa convex blade:

vFigure Lisa pair-qt' shears complete.

The blade A, figs. 2 and f4, is pivoted to link D at a a, iigs. 1,2, and4, ,eitherbypiu or' screw, and hole eLree'eives the fulcrum-pin orscrew.

Blade'Bisprovided with a slot, O, through which .thenfulcrurn-pinorscrew passes, and' hole i, where link Dis pivted either by pin orscrew.

I'dfo not claimto have .invented convex Or concave n blades;- IieitherdoI-.elaimthe invention of the movable fel'crnrnand link inpruning-knives, but, Ias heretoforej constructed, when the rslot isinit-he convexl blade A, and the lever pivoted toV both 'shanks of theblades backof seid 'slot,.`the lever braces in cutting :and forms thefulcrum, making the purchase too-long, vtoo far away from the cnt, andrequiring much more power to make a out than ywhen the fulernm is nt theslot, as' in fig. 4.

The lever should be pivoted, one end to blade A, at a; figs. 2 and4,-'and the otherA end of lever to blade B, at i, figs. Sgand 4, thusavoiding bracing, and giving the blade a gentle-draw-motion .whilecutting, the

yslot in blade B lfivinf a s'hort fulcrnm. The combina-

